What's It All About, Alfie?

Ryecroft is a personal collection of notes on design, cities and other interesting things that I stumble across. I hope you find something that interests you.

I am a husband, architect, Oklahoman, and Christian currently living and working as an architect in New York City. It would be safe to expect that themes of Gotham, architecture, urbanity, sustainability, and faith will be the primary influence on my writing. I’m also married to a wonderful woman – a trained photographer and graphic designer working in the fashion industry. Our shared obsessions with typography, grid layouts and clothing might also appear in these notes.

I should point out that the views expressed on this site are my own, and do not represent those of my employer, family members, or anyone else.

ryecroft is a collection of notes on various bits of my life and other 'interestingness.'

You don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s every been built. You don’t start there. You say I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid. …. You do that every single day, and soon you have a wall. (~23:00)

And I like Jeff Veen’s approach of starting from the bottom up in the The Art & Science of Web Design (and I’m paraphrasing liberally):

Start with the doorknob. Once you become a doorknob expert, you can move on to becoming a room expert, a door expert, a window expert. Make connections, and you can become an expert on how public spaces can foster community interaction, or how city design can alleviate congestion.